Rick Bragg to speak at Alpine Living event

Friday

Feb 22, 2013 at 2:30 PM

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg will speak at 7:30 p.m. March 6 in Room 205 of Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library on the University of Alabama campus. Tickets are $8 for students and faculty and $12 for the general public. Bragg's speech will be hosted by Alpine Living, a UA student-led international travel magazine.

Staff report

TUSCALOOSA | Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg will speak at 7:30 p.m. March 6 in Room 205 of Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library on the University of Alabama campus.Tickets are $8 for students and faculty and $12 for the general public. Bragg’s speech will be hosted by Alpine Living, a UA student-led international travel magazine. Alan Alexander, a UA junior who is managing editor of the magazine, said Bragg’s background as a journalist made him an ideal choice for the fundraiser.“He’s a great storyteller, and we expect he’ll draw a big crowd,” Alexander said.Bragg teaches magazine and feature writing at UA.On March 16, 22 UA graduate and undergraduate students will travel to Spain for two weeks as part of an international journalism course. In Barcelona, Madrid, Pamplona and Seville, the students will report stories about the culture of each region. The results will be published in Alpine Living magazine and online at www.alpineliving.ua.edu.All proceeds from Bragg’s speech will go toward the printing of the magazine.Bragg was a correspondent for The New York Times and a reporter and bureau chief at the St. Petersburg Times. He also worked as a reporter for The Birmingham News and The Anniston Star.He is the author of several books, including “Ava’s Man,” “I Am A Soldier Too,” “The Prince of Frogtown,” “The Most They Ever Had” and “All Over But the Shoutin’.” Bragg won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award in both 1991 and 1996, the Clarence Cason Award for nonfiction writing from the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences in 2004 and the Harper Lee Award as the distinguished writer of the year at the Alabama Writers’ Forum in 2009.